Patriotic Committee.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, 18 September 1914, Page 2

Patriotic Committee.

! SUPERSEDED BY RELIEF COMMITTEE. I A meetiug of the members of i the Empire Defence Fund committee was held on Monday i night in the supper-room of the i King’s Hall, Mr J. P. B.iley presiding. Mr F. Harris intimated that the fund now amounted to ■ £336 13s 6d, all of which, except a little on hand and promised, had been banked. . The chairman moved that the fund be now closed, as all the money available would now be required to provide for those who had bee's made widows and orphans as 11,e result of the catastrophe that had occurred. The number of widows arid orphans would be very great, and any moneys that might come from the insurances covered by the Employees Liabilities Act would not meet the necossitities of the case. He had received telegrams from Wellington, Hamil--1 tin, Pu rekohe, Dunedin, and : other place.-, asking wh it steps : were' being taken t.wards the : inauguration of a re’.i :i fund, and ' as such was absolutely necessary, he moved that a fund, to be known as the Huntly Miuit Disaster Relief Fun^^^gned. ainssl. ami '■